HOW TO LIVE THRIFTILY

Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 5

HOW TO LIVE THRIFTILY

TO TIIK EDITOR Sir, —I have been, following with - : r,*orest the numerous replies to an article- published a weak ago, and figued by “A loldicr's Mother, *’ wherein eho states that three adults (•an fivo comfortably on 21s 6<l per week. Included in this sum are the costs of Rnt-cr-iaining, et-c., which “ Soldiot’a Mother" naively admits is not on a very lavish scale, and hi which respect I agree with her Doubtless tho cost of her enteciainiug L; very meagre, aa be” friends would not, I j liink, be anxious to visit her very often, or, if they did, would be likely to bring thrjr own rt-frc-'!meuts. I would offer tho r.igrgeslion, for what it is worth, that the thrift and di-qilaycd by ” Soki.er’s ?!-■ rii- i ' •!;..■;M hr brought to tire no dee of the NutionM K;;iciency Board, or soma such public bud;,’ V-,',! lieu - .’ much of the ’,lr» c-n i.-ur .-..fidiors are. ofien fed. V>lwl a c.or.ous luxury’ ir would be for a m>!u ” * • Kr'd’ riunc:;, •pi-'iMl v.ri’. 1 !'. cloves. l in sf.d steak, vug’s, u.-;., ;ui;i other tasty dishes, at a co«t- to (lie (-lovrru-nu-nt. of 7s prv week per man. ’V;,v, -fi almost seems too joou to bo lour, and uou d he hard to believe but for oho ;,ici. ; : , o “ (-oldioris ifotlifiir ’’ has pubihi.ed );c-r r; vrhioli for thrift and accuracy of detail v.-juld bo bard to equal. —I am, etc., Disocstsd S'oi.diliti’s Wjfb. July 5. TO Tin.: lIDITOV. Sir.—l fail to cco why ScMior’s M’u'icr ” bo so taken io ta-k for giving us such ostollmt advice on the subject el economical Lviug, Ti> my nnad, it hj not no much a question of whether v-c ou albuM to stwiml much on food, us whether v.t. ipc jujtilicd in indulging in iuxon’cs n! tin; p.esent time. I may say (hat I have kepi my household, which included an iu:fa.-hio?i-ftblo liunibor of boys, at the ratt cf to per head for food before tho war, and 7s since; and I may also say that indigestion is mi unknown word, and tho doctor’s visits have always been few and very far between.—l Plats Living ajtd High TnmrxxG. July 5.